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Quotes About Afternoon

In the morning I write love letters and in the afternoon I dig graves
~ Victor Hugo
I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.
~ Cassandra Clare
I woke up the next afternoon cotton-mouthed with a splitting, and I do mean splitting, headache. When I raised my head, I half expected to leave large chunks of it on my pillow, like a broken melon. Sorry. It was a really bad headache.
~ Cate Tiernan
don't you dare judge me, it was four in the afternoon, and all cats know four in the afternoon is Twelfthnap, right after Teanap.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Massive rolling waves of white-gray clouds chase the warm afternoon across a deep blue sky.
~ Terri Guillemets
When there is only so much of the same thing, and when two men want all they can get of the same thing, there is a conflict of interest between labor and capital. And it is an irreconcilable conflict. As long as workingmen and capitalists exist, they will continue to quarrel over the division. If you were in San Francisco this afternoon, you'd have to walk. There isn't a street car running. Another strike?* the Bishop queried with alarm. *
~ Jack London
them, and all our old 78 records, all the afternoon.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Thursday's great event was Aimé Cesaire's speech in the afternoon, dealing with the relation between colonization and culture.
~ James Baldwin
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
~ James Crumley
With a free afternoon, I'd probably put on a onesie, find something like a really dark, uncomfortable documentary on Netflix, and order pizza with a lot of ranch on the side.
~ Italia Ricci
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
~ Anthony Burgess
I was very keen on squash. My father used to go to sleep in the afternoon. Normally, in Pakistan, everybody goes to sleep in the afternoon, because it's really hot. I'd go and play without telling anybody.
~ Jahangir Khan
I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could stop.
~ Toyah Willcox
At around four o'clock most Saturday afternoons, just when I make us all a cup of tea, I have a little glow on, maybe because this is after all my work, and it's going OK, maybe because I'm proud of us, of the way that, though our talents are small and peculiar, we use them to their best advantage.
~ Nick Hornby
a single cleaning service to be had on a Friday afternoon. He tackled the kitchen first with the bottle of Top Job he'd borrowed from a neighbor. The house smelled like a pine forest, but it couldn't be helped. Then Michael lured
~ Nora Roberts
On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached from across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms. The shadows continued up the bank, until they included us
~ Norman Maclean
ANYONE SEEING AN OLD DERELICT SOT SLOWLY SWAYING down Moon Avenue in Bisbee that afternoon
~ Clive Cussler
Here is a hall where one pays money and goes in, where one hears music among somnolent people who have come here after lunch on a hot afternoon. We have eaten beef and pudding enough to live for a week without tasting food. Therefore we cluster like maggots on the back of some thing that will carry us on.
~ Virginia Woolf
I was proceeding slowly one afternoon through torrents of rain and kept seeing that red ghost swimming and shivering with lust in my mirror, when presently the deluge dwindled to a patter, and then was suspended altogether.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Hani bilirsiniz göÄŸe as?l? gibi duran gündüzlerin, etraf?nda su sinekleri uçuÅŸan, çiçekler açm?? bir çal?l???n çevresinde geliÅŸen, güzel, a??r kokulu öÄŸleden sonralar?n ya da bir tepeciÄŸin eteklerinde ba??boÅŸ gezerken dal?verip alt üst ettiÄŸiniz yaz akÅŸamüstlerinin s?cakl??? gibi; kürklü bir s?cakl?k, alt?n rengi su sinekleri...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I think I'm coming up on the ess curve, so I'm going to hang up and concentrate on driving. In the snow. Which wasn't supposed to happen until tomorrow afternoon. Gee, Kels, I didn't know you believed in the weatherman. Do you still believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, too? How about the Easter Bunny? All right. Point taken.
~ Lani Ames
I imagine the soul / Is something lighter than a girl's ribbon / I witnessed, one afternoon, as it fell–blue, from "The Letter
~ Larry Levis
It was his favorite part of the afternoon, or should have been: the sun bright and hot in the sky, the plants twitching their green fingers.
~ Laura Ruby
The river this November afternoon Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud: A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.
~ Cecil Day-Lewis